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Jesus, denne skrev jeg for ett år siden:

 

Full Metal Jacket (1986)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

 

    10 minutes into Full Metal Jacket I suddenly understood the complexity of the Vietnam-war. Being that so many directors chose to direct their version and not the mainstream version sometimes craved by the big audience, a great selection of war epics based on the Vietnam-war is available, and thus the exceptional quality of moviemaking based on events of the war.

Stanley Kubrick and Michael Herr based their screenplay on a short story by Gustav Hasford. Hasford served in the war and if you’re willing to let the movie effect you more than what might be good, think about the fact he based the story on his own experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam.

To me it seems like Kubrick, the legendary director with movies which may seem pretentious to someone and brilliant to others on his nearly spotless record, wanted to totally follow an unexplored trail. Considering the fact that he had made timeless masterpieces pre to Full Metal Jacket, he could do almost anything and still carry that mark of brilliance he got in the earlier years of his career.

  It feels like a pretty long movie, though the average length is roughly 100 minutes. By killing one character; the person that he earlier on had us believe was the identifiable core of the movie, Kubrick takes the story to another level. Instead of in the beginning taking us into a boring exploration of a combat within the woods of Vietnam, he lets us get to know the characters. Not without a reason; he wants it to hurt when that special someone dies, painfully with no decent reason what so ever.

 

Privat Gomer Pyle is a sorry excuse for a soldier. At least that’s what Sergeant Hartman thinks. Hartman gives Pyle hell, nothing less. Like a disabled person, which is the way some might see private Pyle due to his unlucky limits in combat, Hartman equips him with a right hand, private Joker.

  Joker is our hero, in a way. Being that Pyle becomes his responsibility, he has to suffer if Pyle takes a step in the wrong direction or shoots a bit of target. Like when lightning strikes, Pyle is out of Jokers life. He’s on his own now, free.

Then Jokers Vietnam adventure begins. He explores the fields of killing as a reporter for a newspaper concentrating on the war.

 

The easiest way to say it is that Kubrick never fails. I won’t do that, just to bother you with a reason why Full Metal Jacket is what it is. It’s a special way to project the terrible events that occurred during the Vietnam-war. Kubrick starts of like any regular mainstream movie by introducing the characters, in his own, repulsive way. As mentioned before, he cuts the movie in half with his special storytelling.

It’s charming to see Kubrick trying to show us the terrible events using his very own style, and it’s fulfilling to see him succeeding… again. Known worldwide for his illustrating violence, Full Metal Jacket is no exception. With movies like A Clockwork Orange and Spartacus, Kubrick had already proven his talent for violence and Full Metal Jacket is just the icing on the cake and re-assures Kubrick as a serious director of drama.

Nailing it down to a paragraph; Full Metal Jacket is a movie you just can’t miss. Wether you’re a Kubrick fan, or a viewer of the more commercial kind of moviemaking. Kubrick’s flawless directing satisfies everyone. He has managed to make a movie that deals with historical events, friendship and hope. And don’t worry; as the final, vital aspect, Kubrick also overdoes the character to that extent that the laughter doesn’t get stuck in your throat, and spite the gruesome pictures reviled, you just have to giggle some times. Conclusion remains the same after my year of birth; Kubrick has just put another brick in the wall of brilliance.

     

 

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